employment issues

'I’m just confused': Illinois worker seeks advice after employer gives him one day to accept a schedule outside his availability or resign

Etai Eshet

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Employee accepts new job with 40% pay raise, company rescinds offer when former employer sends non-compete clause with forged signature: 'My former boss destroyed my livelihood'

Ally Perry

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18-year-old gets scolded by neighbor after she offers him a job on her farm, and he refuses due to his tight schedule: ‘This is going to affect my work and my sanity’

Melissa Knudson

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Coworker "Jake" steals credit for employee's project that she built from the ground up — he joined the project only 6 weeks prior, contributing just 10% of the work — she interjects to reclaim credit, the director reprimands her: 'Today I finally snapped'

Brad Dickson

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Boss Demands Employee “Stop Thinking and Follow Instructions” After Accusing Them of Working Too Slowly When Checking Orders for Errors, It Immediately Backfires When Employee Complies and Ignores Obvious Errors

Brad Dickson

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Manager allows employee to take work laptop home for maternity leave, and his boss demands it be returned during 9-month-long leave even though no one will use it: ‘It isn’t her fault this situation happened - if anything, it’s mine’

Etai Eshet

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Team lead publicly humiliates employee and tells her to stop "overstepping" after previously expecting her to do her work, then the lead’s boss tells the employee to apply for a new senior job

Brad Dickson

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HR asks employee to document everything a toxic coworker does just to use it against him, as it was concerning his focus in interpersonal conflicts: ‘Now they're using my own records to paint me as the problem’

María Cetra

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18-year-old factory trainee does not know what Microsoft Windows is, thinks his computer doesn’t have an operating system: 'It’s just a MacBook'

Etai Eshet

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California employer drains employee’s bank account, leaving it -$3200 for 2 weeks after accidentally overpaying him, then withdrawing way more than the overpayment without warning

Etai Eshet

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Golf ball manufacturing company loses millions after ignoring technician’s warning and refusing to spend $500K to replace faulty equipment: ‘[They] drained the entire production budget for 2 years as I sat smiling. I left shortly after'

Etai Eshet

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MI Employee, a woman in her 40s, learns her new boss has tried to have her fired, when that fails he restructures 15% of her salary into an impossible bonus and begins giving her direct report her own tasks: 'My boss had gone to our CEO to have me fired'

Brad Dickson

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‘Man it feels good. I never liked her’: IT worker quits on spot after HR consultant becomes de facto boss, demands he comb through 200 hours of CCTV footage from 28 cameras to spy on coworkers and deliver dozens of clips in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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Out-of-work employee gets rejected after 5 rounds of interviews through a phone call that lasted 12 minutes with the VP of operations, who was in his car: 'Why do companies make candidates jump through endless hoops?'

María Cetra

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‘Um, no. You decided to be petty, so I’ll be gone in 2 days’: Boss backtracks and begs employee to work through his two weeks’ notice after telling him to leave in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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‘How firing me backfired for my boss’: Textile company tries to dodge severance by dragging out a firing, but boss's own delays and paperwork mistakes force him to pay two months of unworked salary plus full severance and a 10% penalty.

Etai Eshet

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